"related to some of the ideas first presented there. Indica Gallery Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard (off Duke Street), St. James's, London, England during the late 1960s, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop co-owned by John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles. It was supported by Paul McCartney and hosted a show of Yoko Ono's work in November 1966 at which Ono first met John Lennon. Miles had been running the bookshop and alternative happenings venue Better Books but with new, more traditional, owners arriving, had been planning to open his own bookstore/venue. Through"
"and Lennon's former Beatles bandmates George Harrison and Ringo Starr. After the Lennons' move to New York, they began collaborating with Elephant's Memory, under the moniker of the ""Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band"". Lennon's collaborations continued under similar names, until the winding down of the concept in 1974. From 2009-2015 (following the death of Lennon in 1980), Ono and her son Sean Lennon led a new incarnation of the group, known as the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. John Lennon and Yoko Ono first met in 1966. Lennon was a world-famous member of the Beatles, and Ono was an avant-garde"
"John Lennon first met Yoko Ono, who had constructed her ""Ceiling Painting"" (or the ""YES Painting"") which required people to climb a ladder and look through a magnifying glass suspended from the ceiling, which allowed them to see the word ""YES"" in tiny letters on a framed piece of paper on the ceiling. During the recording, the band lived in different apartments within the same building and travelled to and from the studio together. White recalled that the band had not done such a thing since they recorded ""Going for the One"" (1977) in Switzerland and felt such a situation"
"BIT alternative information centre took place at the Royal Albert Hall, and following it, on 25–26 January 1969, the Arts Lab Conference in Cambridge emphasized the strength of the Arts Lab movement, listing 50 such centres across the whole country, including the Birmingham Arts Lab, Brighton Combination and centres in Exeter, Farnham, Guildford, Huddersfield, Loughborough, Manchester, Southampton, Bath and Swindon. Yoko Ono and John Lennon's first joint artwork ""Build Around"" was exhibited at the Drury Lane Arts Lab in May 1968. David Bowie, who used to rehearse (and perform mime) at the Drury Lane Arts Lab, co-founded a Beckenham Arts"
"1966 was visited by the musician John Lennon who had heard that ""this amazing woman was going to be putting on a show...and it was going to be a bit of a happening"". Lennon was initially impressed by the humour of Ono's work ""Apple"", and later said of his interaction with ""Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting"" that he had ""climbed the ladder, looked through the spyglass, and in tiny little letters it said 'yes'...So it was positive. I felt relieved"". Lennon's initial interaction with ""Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting"" was depicted in the Canadian playwright Jean Yoon's 2002 play ""The Yoko Ono Project"". The"
"Lennon was in a fragile state of mind after returning from the band's sojourn in India in early 1968 and was disillusioned and resentful that their Transcendental Meditation guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, had not fulfilled Lennon's expectations. Lennon became discontented over his personal identity and his artistic role within the Beatles and entered another period of drug use, which coincided with a deterioration in his marriage and family life. He began to develop an intense interest in the work of Yoko Ono, a Japanese-American conceptual artist whom he had first met at one of her exhibitions in 1966. The pair"
"of the 72-acre property. In September 1969, Prabhupada finally came to visit the new UK base, reuniting with his disciples and meeting Harrison and Lennon for the first time. Held in a former recital hall in the grounds of Tittenhurst Park, Prabhupada's meeting with the two Beatles and Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife, led to a philosophical discussion about topics such as the Bhagavad Gita, mantras and Krishna. Their conversation was taped by Shyamsundar and later made available as ""Lennon '69: Search for Liberation"", the first publication in Mukunda's Vedic Contemporary Library Series. Of the two bandmates, Lennon was the one"
"Yoko Ono Yoko Ono (, ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art, which she performs in both English and Japanese, and filmmaking. She was the second wife of singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles. Ono grew up in Tokyo and also spent several years in New York City. She studied at Gakushuin University, but withdrew from her course after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family. She spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College and then became involved in"
"became a full-time caregiver for Kyoko, while both he and Ono continued with their art, collaborating as conceptual artists. Ono's growing estrangement from Cox in 1966 inspired her to create her artwork ""Half-A-Room"", and the pain of their subsequent breakup inspired Ono to make ""Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting"". Their marriage fell apart some time after 1966, when Ono met John Lennon at an art show, and Cox and Ono divorced on February 2, 1969. After a legal battle, Ono was awarded permanent custody of Kyoko. However, in 1971 Cox, who had joined a religious group known as the Church of the"
"readings, musical concerts and recitals, and cultural lectures. It held book, record, and antiques fairs and became a centre for working artists and craftspeople. Some of the events have continued to hold a place in history. The 1908 exhibition of works mostly by members of the Sandon Society also included the first showing in Liverpool of Claude Monet who received a special invite. In 1911, the Sandon Society took on parts of Roger Fry's London Post-Impressionist exhibition, showing works by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, and Van Gogh for the first time in the UK outside the capital. In 1967 Yoko Ono"
"physical and mental health, Garbo had also cut many other close friends out of her life. Green in his last will and testament bequeathed all 100 hours of the tapes, which make up one of the most important records of the last 50 years of Garbo's life, to the Wesleyan University. Green, an admirer of New York-resident Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, met her flat mate Yoko Ono in the 1960s on one of his regular visits to their apartment. After Ono married John Lennon in 1969, from 1974 the couple became resident in Manhattan, and would regularly dine with Green."
"Live in New York City (John Lennon album) Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by English rock musician John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, the first being ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"". Recorded on 30 August 1972 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Lennon performed two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, a benefit concert for the Willowbrook State School for Retarded Children in New York,"
"well as in Chorley, Lancashire, Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, Germany and New York City. He has also sold many smaller works around the world. In 2003, he was voted by Radio Merseyside listeners and ""Liverpool Echo"" readers as the 76th Greatest Merseysider. Now his work is known all over the world since creating the iconic statue of John Lennon at Liverpool John Lennon Airport which was unveiled jointly on 15 March 2002, by Cherie Blair and Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. His sculptures of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock, commissioned by Merseytravel are sited at Liverpool Lime Street railway station."
"became an honorary patron to Alder Hey Charity. On February 26, 2016, Ono was hospitalized after suffering what was rumored to be a possible stroke. It was later announced that she was experiencing extreme symptoms of the flu. On September 6, 2016, Secretly Canadian announced that they would be re-issuing 11 of Yoko Ono's albums from 1968 to 1985; Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins through Starpeace. Ono has been an activist for peace and human rights since the 1960s. After she and Lennon married in Gibraltar, they held a March 1969 ""Bed-In for Peace"" in their honeymoon suite at"
"John and Yoko: A Love Story John and Yoko: A Love Story is a 1985 British-American made-for-television biographical film that chronicles the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, beginning just before they met in 1966 and concluding with Lennon's murder in 1980. The movie was made with the co-operation of Yoko Ono, who controlled the song rights. It was directed by Sandor Stern and stars Mark McGann as Lennon and Kim Miyori as Ono. The film opens on August 19, 1966, where just before the Beatles begin their next American concert in Memphis, Tennessee for their fourth American tour,"
"John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by English musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"", a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded simultaneously with Ono's debut avant-garde solo album, ""Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band"", at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team and nearly identical cover artwork. ""John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band"" is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums, documenting with"
"an archetypal woman he had been searching for and would finally find in Yoko Ono, the Japanese artist he met in November 1966. In the lyrics, he also expresses his disdain for Christian and Catholic moral values. The song was the final track recorded for the album. The composition incorporates aspects of Greek folk music, while the arrangement includes an instrumental passage set as a German two-step and an acoustic guitar part played to sound like a Greek bouzouki. High equalisation was applied to Lennon's vocal over the choruses to capture the hissing sound as he drew breath – an"
"designed by Rick Mather Architects, during construction the contractor was Wates Construction and the structural and services engineer was Ramboll UK. The building was officially renamed on the 1 July 2013 after John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, gave the university her blessing to use the Lennon name in recognition of her husband's links with the College of Art and the City of Liverpool. The John Lennon Art and Design Building has a gross internal area of and contains of public exhibition space, alongside a number of lecture theatres, seminar rooms and a large auditorium. ICT facilities, workshops and a café"
"to Hungary. In 1992 he founded Gallery 56, which became significant in the Hungarian contemporary art scene, among others, by exposing important artists who were considered rarities at the time. The gallery focused mainly on displaying American artists, for example Haring, Warhol, Agnes Martin, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ross Bleckner, Donald Sultan, Donald Baechler. Some of the artists also participated personally on the vernissages. Living classics of Hungarian contemporary art were also represented and giant talents such as, László Moholy-Nagy. The name of the gallery comes from Yoko Ono, who alluded to the approaching revolution in the artworld."
"in California to continue their primal therapy treatment under Arthur Janov,<ref name=""Martin/Uncut""> Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).</ref> Wenner had wanted to carry out an in-depth interview with Lennon for ""Rolling Stone"". Instead, Lennon and Ono undertook four months of therapy with Janov and then returned to London to record their respective albums ""John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band"" – Lennon's first collection of songs outside the Beatles – and ""Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band"". Wenner was finally able to interview Lennon in late 1970, when he and Ono were in New York City visiting friends and filming ""Up Your Legs Forever"" and"
"John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership. Along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group would ascend to worldwide fame during the 1960s. After the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon pursued a solo career and started the band Plastic Ono Band with his second wife Yoko Ono. He was born as John Winston Lennon in Liverpool, where he became involved in"
"Plastic Ono Band The Plastic Ono Band was a rock band formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 as a vehicle for their collaborative and solo projects. Lennon and Ono had begun a personal and artistic relationship in 1968, collaborating on several experimental releases. Following their marriage in 1969, they decided that all of their future endeavours would be credited to a conceptual and collaborative vehicle, Plastic Ono Band. The band would go on to feature a rotating lineup of many musicians, including Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Billy Preston, Jim Keltner, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends,"
"Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is the avant-garde debut studio album by Yoko Ono. The album came after recording three experimental releases with John Lennon and a live album as a member of The Plastic Ono Band. With the exception of ""AOS"", a 1968 live recording, the entire album was recorded in one afternoon in October 1970 during the ""John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band"" sessions at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios, using the same musicians and production team. Also recorded on this day were ""Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)"""
"to join the others' way of thinking following the group's concert at St Louis, which took place on 21 August. Over the decades since the Beatles performed their first Asian concerts there in 1966, Japan has continued to occupy a significant place in the band's legacy. After meeting his second wife, the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, in November 1966, Lennon enjoyed visiting the country during the 1970s. In December 1991, having never recovered his enthusiasm for performing live after the Beatles' experiences, Harrison carried out his second of only two tours as a solo artist in Japan. McCartney and Starr"
"which have then been inscribed by his wife, Sue, at their home in Cornwall. English Heritage plans to erect an average of twelve new blue plaques each year in London. Many are unveiled by prominent public people: for example, in 2010 a plaque dedicated to John Lennon was unveiled in Montagu Square by Yoko Ono, at the house where the couple shot the cover of the album """". After being conceived by politician William Ewart in 1863, the scheme was initiated in 1866 by Ewart, Henry Cole and the Society of Arts (now the Royal Society of Arts), which erected"
"Season of Glass Season of Glass is a 1981 album by Yoko Ono, her first solo recording after the murder of her husband John Lennon. The album was released less than six months after Lennon's death and deals with it directly in songs such as ""Goodbye Sadness"" and ""I Don't Know Why"". ""Season of Glass"" reached #49 on Billboard 200 Album Chart, making it Ono's highest-charting solo album to date. The front cover features Lennon's bloodstained glasses positioned next to a half-filled glass of water, with a view of Central Park in the background. A young Sean Lennon features on"
"26 October 1993 26 October 1993 is an artwork created in 1993 as a collaboration between English artists Henry Bond and Sam Taylor-Wood, both of whom were involved in the Young British Artists scene of contemporary art. It is a pastiche or remaking of a well-known photographic portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was made by Annie Leibovitz a few hours before Lennon's murder. The photo ""made a splash in the British art scene in 1993."" The work was exhibited as part of the exhibition Brilliant! held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, in 1995. In his"
"about music and peace, featuring John Lennon's guitar inscribed with two drawings of John and Yoko Ono in Lennon's hand. Ono wrote the dedication to the book for the exhibition, published by Chicago Review Press. Also featured in the show were U2, Bob Marley, Holly Near, Joan Baez, Stevie Wonder, Country Joe McDonald, Harry Chapin, Pete Seeger and Graham Nash, among others. Chicago's Peace Museum opened its doors in 1981 with an exhibition called ""The Unforgettable Fire"" which featured drawings from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. The exhibit drew the attention of the Irish rock band U2 who"
"48.5 cm.); on 23 October 2001, the photograph was offered at an art auction held by Christie's Auctioneers, ""work number five from an edition of five,"" sold for $15,059. 26 October 1993 26 October 1993 is an artwork created in 1993 as a collaboration between English artists Henry Bond and Sam Taylor-Wood, both of whom were involved in the Young British Artists scene of contemporary art. It is a pastiche or remaking of a well-known photographic portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was made by Annie Leibovitz a few hours before Lennon's murder. The photo ""made a splash"
"the Indica Gallery with Barry Miles. The gallery became known for staging exhibitions by cutting edge artists, including Boyle Family and Yoko Ono from the Fluxus movement. It was at Indica where he introduced Ono to John Lennon. Indica folded in just two years, after which Dunbar became an artist and exhibited work alongside Peter Blake and Colin Self. With Jill Matthews, Dunbar later fathered William Dunbar, now a journalist based in Tbilisi. In January 2006, Dunbar participated in the International Symposium on LSD in Basel honouring LSD inventor Albert Hofmann on his 100th birthday. With John Hopkins and Barry"
"she inaugurated a biennial $50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace in 2002. She also co-founded the group Artists Against Fracking in 2012. She has a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, from her marriage to Anthony Cox and a son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, from her marriage to Lennon. She collaborates musically with Sean. Ono was born on February 18, 1933, in Tokyo, Japan, to and , a wealthy banker and former classical pianist. Isoko's maternal grandfather was an affiliate of the Yasuda clan and zaibatsu. Eisuke came from a long line of samurai warrior-scholars. The kanji translation of ""Yōko"" () means ""ocean"
"and ""Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band"" respectively. In the spring and summer of 1971, Lennon and Ono respectively recorded ""Imagine"" and ""Fly"". Despite the albums featuring regular members of the Plastic Ono Band (such as George Harrison, Klaus Voorman, Alan White, Jim Keltner, and Jim Gordon) and Phil Spector's production of ""Imagine"", the albums were credited not to the Plastic Ono Band, but to Lennon and Ono as solo artists. On 6 June, Lennon and Ono performed with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in New York City, dubbing the collaboration as the ""Plastic Ono Mothers"". The next use of"
"unveiled a Blue Plaque at 34 Montagu Square: ""John Lennon, 1940–1980, Musician and songwriter, lived here in 1968"". Beatles' biographer, Hunter Davies, started the unveiling ceremony, with Rod Davis, from Lennon's first group, The Quarrymen, in the gathering. Ono said: I am very honoured to unveil this blue plaque and thank English Heritage for honouring John in this way. This particular flat has many memories for me and is a very interesting part of our history. In what would have been John's 70th year, I am grateful to you all for commemorating John and this particular part of his London"